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03-22-2007, 07:45 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tennessee
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| Tips please! I will have puppies in about a week! If I'm right in counting, tomorrow should be Day 58! The babies are kicking all over the place and Paisley LOVES just laying on her back to have her belly rubbed. Any tips on getting ready? I have her a bed/whelping box already made out and ready just in case, I guess I'm just paranoid that the motherly instinct won't kick in right away. POINTERS PLEASE!! I'm sooooooo excited to have these babies here and I won't to be as prepared for anything under the sun as possible. |
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03-23-2007, 04:41 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Missouri
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| My best advice is to go to www.debbiejensen.com Make sure you have all the supplies on there that she suggests. Good luck!
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03-23-2007, 05:00 AM | #3 | |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
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What other supplies do you have on hand? You should have 1. A scale that easily reads ounces 2. Nutri-Cal 3. Clean, dry towels, (preferably hand towels and wash cloths) 4. Sterile three-inch gauze pads to dry inside pups' mouths 5. Alcohol to sterilize instruments and hands 6. Antibacterial Skin Cleaner 7. Several hemostats (Kelly forceps-7") at least 3 straight and one curved, to clamp umbilical cord if necessary 8. Iodine to apply to umbilical cord to aid in drying and kill germs 9. Sterile cotton balls, baby bottles and preemie nipples. 10. Tube feeding kit-No5 toy feeding tube for toys. 11. Glucose solution 12. Esbilac or other formula, Just Born Esbilac and goats milk with equal parts of water or 1 can evaporated milk. Mix with equal parts Pedialyte and one egg yolk mixed well in blender 13. Rectal thermometer and KY Jelly 14. Room termometer to monitor temperature in whelping area which should be approximately 80 degrees Fahrenheit and reduce daily 15. Syringes 10cc and 20cc for giving medicine and measuring formula 16. Pure glycerin, which is good for a quick enema 17. eyedroppers 18. Blood stop powder 19. Cotton thread or dental floss for tying ubilical cords 20. Silver nitrate sticks to stop bleeding at umbical and when removing dew claws and tails. 21. Nasal syringe (infants) to suction nose and mouth. 22. Wterile surgical gloves 23. Pet Nutri Drops 24. Whelping recipe to feed moms the require energy during and after whelping.
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03-23-2007, 05:54 AM | #4 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tennessee
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03-23-2007, 05:58 AM | #5 | |
Mardelin Yorkshire Terriers Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: California
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Don't know if you have a breeder friendly vet, but if you do, is there a possibility of being supplied with premeasured Oxcytocin....you may not need them during the whelping, but very wise to administer 12-24 hours after whelping.....If your vet is breeder friendly I'm sure he'll instruct you as to how and when to administer the shot.
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